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Diversity and Inclusion
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A diverse workforce makes for a better engineering workplace. When a range of ideas and experiences are brought to the table, innovation...
The Case for Change
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A visual depiction of research that shows how diversity in the workplace leads to better business outcomes.
The many benefits of diversity
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The benefits of diversity that employers of engineers can expect include a competitive edge, increased productivity and enhanced reputation. ...
The business case for increasing diversity
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Three powerful reasons why diversity is good for your engineering business.
Parental Leave
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Advice on your obligations as an employer of engineers, in responding to an employee’s request to take parental leave.
Dealing with Sexual Harassment
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Concise, practical information on what employers and employees need to know about sexual harassment in the workplace.
Sexual harassment in the workplace
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Short article and infographic on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.
Employing Migrants
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Like many countries, New Zealand relies to some extent on hiring people from overseas to fill skills gaps in our workforce. Find out about...
Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practiced Problem Solvers
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Why hiring engineers with disabilities means hiring practiced problem solvers.
NZ Steel finding strength in diversity
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Case study of NZ Steel’s recruitment strategy to attract more women and older workers.
How a flexible workplace helps your business
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Practical advice to providing a flexible workplace, and a guide to employers’ legal obligations in responding to requests for flexible hours....
Flexible working arrangements
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Attracting and retaining good staff may well depend on your ability to offer flexibility. This guide outlines several different types of...
Parental Leave Employers obligations
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Advice on your obligations as an employer of engineers, in responding to an employee’s request to take parental leave.
International Qualifications Assessment
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As an employer of migrant engineers, you and your prospective employees will want to know how their qualifications stack up against those...
Attract overseas engineers
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Workhere New Zealand can help you attract, retain and engage with quality engineering candidates who are considering moving to New Zealand. ...
Finding, hiring, keeping young workers
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BusinessNZ provides practical advice and tips on hiring, training and progressing young engineering employees.
Employers Toolkit
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Comprehensive toolkit for employing young people – covering everything from initial engagement, site visits and interviews, through to...
Mature workers in the labour market
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With skills' shortages in engineering and an ageing population, find out how to make the most of employing mature workers, by establishing a...
Benefits to employing mature age workers
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See the value that one mature-aged worker brings to his workplace.
Check a candidate's visa status
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Check your prospective employee’s visa status and satisfy yourself that they’re able to settle here and work for you.
Initiative encourages Maori Career Progression
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Fulton Hogan’s commitment to encouraging career development and leadership amongst its Māori workforce has led to the establishment of a role...
International Qualifications Assessment
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As an employer of migrant engineers, you and your prospective employees will want to know how their qualifications stack up against those...
Attract overseas engineers
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Workhere New Zealand can help you attract, retain and engage with quality engineering candidates who are considering moving to New Zealand. ...
How to hire the right employees
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Find out how to how to hire employees with the aptitude and skills that will help your business run smoothly and efficiently.
Hiring an employee
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A comprehensive guide on hiring – who to hire and when, how to interview and what it costs.
Taking a long-term view to recruitment
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Case study of an engineering firm taking on a secondary school student intern to support their long-term recruitment plan.
How to hire: Guide for Employers
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A detailed guide to hiring, focusing on legal obligations and employment relations, and designed to help you avoid common problems.
Venture Taranaki Employer Toolkit
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A regional approach to attracting and retaining staff, including how to “sell” your particular job and region.
The benefits of promoting from within the company
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Eight reasons you should consider employing from within the ranks of your engineering company.
3 Steps for Hiring the Best Engineers
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Three steps to hiring the best engineers, provided by a US engineering recruitment firm.
About the NZDE and the NZDEP
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The New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (NZDEP) and New Zealand Diploma in Engineering Practice (NZDEP) explained. Designed for students, but...
Employing BEngTech graduates
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A case study on the range of skills and benefits that Bachelor of Engineering Technology (BEngTech) graduates bring to the table.
NZ Tertiary qualifications explained
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A short guide to the different types of engineering certificates, diplomas and degrees offered by New Zealand polytechs and universities....
Accredited Engineering Qualifications
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An explanation of the three engineering education programmes accredited by Engineering NZ.
Got a Trade? Got it Made!
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Engineering apprentice Paul Taurima gives his perspective on the value of on-the-job training and mentoring.
International Qualifications Assessment
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As an employer of migrant engineers, you and your prospective employees will want to know how their qualifications stack up against those...
Check a candidate's visa status
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Check your prospective employee’s visa status and satisfy yourself that they’re able to settle here and work for you.
Write a great job description
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A practical guide from an industrial and construction recruitment agency on writing a job description, including template.
How much should I pay my employees?
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A six-step guide to working out how much to pay your new recruit.
Employee cost calculator
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Calculate the ballpark figure of what hiring a new employee might cost.
Authenticity, the key to cultural fit
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How to achieve the right cultural 'fit' in recruitment by communicating your company's value proposition.
How to craft an employee value proposition
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Useful tips in developing an employee value proposition that will help you attract the candidates you want.
How to attract and retain great engineering talent
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Find out how to attract and retain great engineering talent using innovative methods, and the role of social media in successful recruitment....
Attracting great candidates
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TradeMe’s tips on grabbing attention, stimulating interest, creating desire and generating action from engineering job hunters.
How to Use Social Media to Recruit and Hire
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Tips and advice on using social media within your recruitment plan.
How to hire the right employees
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Find out how to how to hire employees with the aptitude and skills that will help your business run smoothly and efficiently.
Hiring an employee
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A comprehensive guide on hiring – who to hire and when, how to interview and what it costs.
How to hire
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Detailed guide to hiring, focusing on legal obligations and employment relations, and designed to help you avoid common problems.
Tips for running a successful interview
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Steps to advertising and interviewing prospective engineering employees.
Employment Learning Modules
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Take a short online course to learn about your responsibilities as an employer.
How do you decide who to interview for your SME?
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A concise and useful approach to sorting through job applications and resumes, and creating a shortlist.
Interviews
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A host of information about conducting job interviews, including setting them up, deciding on how many people to interview, types of...
Verify Qualifications online
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Verify the New Zealand and/or Australian qualifications of your candidates.
Checking references when recruiting a new employee
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Advice from a legal perspective on the importance of checking candidates’ references.
Why you’re likely to hire the wrong person if you don’t do proper reference checks
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Tips on reference checking.
Check a candidate's visa status
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Check your prospective employee’s visa status and satisfy yourself that they’re able to settle here and work for you.
Employment Agreement builder
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Build your own employment agreement using MBIE’s Employee Agreement builder.
Employer responsibilities
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Understand your responsibilities as an employer regarding payroll and tax. Includes guides, tools and calculators.
Parental Leave
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Information on all aspects of parental leave, including employer responsibilities.
Employment Learning Modules
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Take a short online course to learn about your responsibilities as an employer.
Induction
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The road to retaining good staff begins with their first day on the job. A good induction programme reinforces the positive first impressions...
Employee Onboarding
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Five important steps to follow when welcoming a new staff member to your team.
Cadetships - an answer to NZ's skills shortage?
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The first civil engineering cadet scheme was started by the Public Works Department in 1894. The cadetship scheme eventually involved 300 to...
Initiative encourages Maori Career Progression
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Fulton Hogan’s commitment to encouraging career development and leadership amongst its Māori workforce has led to the establishment of a role...
Starting a Cadetship Programme
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Waikato District Council's new cadetship programme is focused on starting small, with two Wintec students to be employed in 2018. The council...
Cadetships - the benefits
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Cadetship programmes are a good way to secure quality workers. A mixture of practical on-the-job training and a relevant qualification makes...
Aurecon Cadetship
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Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, Aurecon and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu joined forces to offer a number of technical cadetships that...
Beca Scholarship
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Ngāi Tahu and Beca have formed a partnership resulting in a new and exciting one-year scholarship opportunity. Our goal is to provide...
Fulton Hogan Cadetship Programme
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Fulton Hogan Industries are looking for career driven school leavers to join our team in Stapylton, Brisbane, for our 2018 QLD Cadetship...
Fulton Hogan Scholarship Programme
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Fulton Hogan offers scholarships to engineering students at Canterbury and Auckland Universities. Scholarship students spend their summer...
Higgins Cadetships
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You can join Higgins and build your qualifications on the job through our cadetship, apprenticeship and graduate programs. Today we have...
Higgins Scholarship
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Higgins Waikato are offering an annual engineering scholarship to Year 13 students in the Waikato region. The scholarship will fund study...
Retain
Finding, hiring, keeping young workers
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BusinessNZ provides practical advice and tips on hiring, training and progressing young engineering employees.
Employers Toolkit
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Comprehensive toolkit for employing young people – covering everything from initial engagement, site visits and interviews, through to...
Taking a long-term view to recruitment
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Case study of an engineering firm taking on a secondary school student intern to support their long-term recruitment plan.
How to hire: Guide for Employers
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A detailed guide to hiring, focusing on legal obligations and employment relations, and designed to help you avoid common problems.
Induction
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The road to retaining good staff begins with their first day on the job. A good induction programme reinforces the positive first impressions...
Employee Onboarding
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Five important steps to follow when welcoming a new staff member to your team.
Building a team
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Tips and advice on building a productive and cohesive team – from the importance of explaining your business vision, to ideas for affordable,...
Dealing with Sexual Harassment
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Concise, practical information on what employers and employees need to know about sexual harassment in the workplace.
Sexual harassment in the workplace
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Short article and infographic on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.
How a flexible workplace helps your business
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Practical advice to providing a flexible workplace, and a guide to employers’ legal obligations in responding to requests for flexible hours....
Flexible working arrangements
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Attracting and retaining good staff may well depend on your ability to offer flexibility. This guide outlines several different types of...
Mature workers in the labour market
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With skills' shortages in engineering and an ageing population, find out how to make the most of employing mature workers, by establishing a...
Benefits to employing mature age workers
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See the value that one mature-aged worker brings to his workplace.
Venture Taranaki Employer Toolkit
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A regional approach to attracting and retaining staff, including how to “sell” your particular job and region.
The benefits of promoting from within the company
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Eight reasons you should consider employing from within the ranks of your engineering company.
Authenticity, the key to cultural fit
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How to achieve the right cultural 'fit' in recruitment by communicating your company's value proposition.
How to craft an employee value proposition
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Useful tips in developing an employee value proposition that will help you attract the candidates you want.
Parental Leave
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Information on all aspects of parental leave, including employer responsibilities.
Employment Learning Modules
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Take a short online course to learn about your responsibilities as an employer.
Induction
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The road to retaining good staff begins with their first day on the job. A good induction programme reinforces the positive first impressions...
Employee Onboarding
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Five important steps to follow when welcoming a new staff member to your team.
Building a team
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Tips and advice on building a productive and cohesive team – from the importance of explaining your business vision, to ideas for affordable,...
Ways to keep people healthy and safe
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An explanation of what is meant by the term ‘reasonably practicable’ when it comes to health and safety in the engineering workplace....
Your guide to workplace wellbeing
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Workplace wellbeing has business benefits for engineering firms. These steps to building a healthy workplace include a free online workplace...
Wellplace Resource Library
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A library of resources to support workplace wellbeing in your organisation.
How to motivate your staff
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Motivated staff are more likely to work well for your business. Find out the different motivators for keeping your staff happy and...
Mentoring the next generation of engineers
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Concise article highlighting the key role that mentoring, succession planning, on-going training and professional development all have in...
Engineering NZ - Course and Events
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Support your engineering staff in ongoing learning. Valued employees are more likely to be motivated to work hard and achieve better results...
Supporting staff onto an engineering pathway
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Learn about one engineering employee’s experience of studying and upskilling while working.
Training, development and coaching
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Learn how a mix of training, development and coaching can boost employee performance.
Improving your employees’ literacy, numeracy and communication skills
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A guide to achieving better business performance by improving employees' numeracy, literacy, communications skills. Includes information on a...
Government help with training
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Find out what government support is available for upskilling your engineering workforce and developing your business.
Electricity Engineers' Association
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Receiving an award can motivate your engineering employees to continue to do their best in their job, and for their firm. The Electrical...
Employee share schemes
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Gain insights in to the experiences of three New Zealand firms who run share schemes.
Employee share schemes
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An accountant’s perspective on employee share schemes and profit sharing.
Mind The Gap: How To Build A Winning Team With Succession Planning
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Losing one person in a team of five, means losing 20 percent of your workforce. Learn how succession planning can protect your business. ...
Succession planning: could a cooperative be the answer?
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Could forming a co-operative be your engineering firm’s answer to succession?
4 Reasons for private companies to consider employee ownership as a part of their succession planning
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Four reasons for private companies to consider employee ownership as part of their succession planning
Dealing with Sexual Harassment
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Concise, practical information on what employers and employees need to know about sexual harassment in the workplace.
Sexual harassment in the workplace
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Short article and infographic on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.
How to hire: Guide for Employers
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A detailed guide to hiring, focusing on legal obligations and employment relations, and designed to help you avoid common problems.
How to hire
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Detailed guide to hiring, focusing on legal obligations and employment relations, and designed to help you avoid common problems.
Employment Learning Modules
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Take a short online course to learn about your responsibilities as an employer.
Parental Leave
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Information on all aspects of parental leave, including employer responsibilities.
Employment Learning Modules
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Take a short online course to learn about your responsibilities as an employer.
Ways to keep people healthy and safe
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An explanation of what is meant by the term ‘reasonably practicable’ when it comes to health and safety in the engineering workplace....
Your guide to workplace wellbeing
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Workplace wellbeing has business benefits for engineering firms. These steps to building a healthy workplace include a free online workplace...
Wellplace Resource Library
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A library of resources to support workplace wellbeing in your organisation.
Mentoring the next generation of engineers
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Concise article highlighting the key role that mentoring, succession planning, on-going training and professional development all have in...
Venture Taranaki Employer Toolkit
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A regional approach to attracting and retaining staff, including how to “sell” your particular job and region.
The benefits of promoting from within the company
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Eight reasons you should consider employing from within the ranks of your engineering company.
Building a team
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Tips and advice on building a productive and cohesive team – from the importance of explaining your business vision, to ideas for affordable,...
How to motivate your staff
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Motivated staff are more likely to work well for your business. Find out the different motivators for keeping your staff happy and...
Mentoring the next generation of engineers
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Concise article highlighting the key role that mentoring, succession planning, on-going training and professional development all have in...
Engineering NZ - Course and Events
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Support your engineering staff in ongoing learning. Valued employees are more likely to be motivated to work hard and achieve better results...
Supporting staff onto an engineering pathway
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Learn about one engineering employee’s experience of studying and upskilling while working.
Training, development and coaching
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Learn how a mix of training, development and coaching can boost employee performance.
Improving your employees’ literacy, numeracy and communication skills
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A guide to achieving better business performance by improving employees' numeracy, literacy, communications skills. Includes information on a...
Government help with training
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Find out what government support is available for upskilling your engineering workforce and developing your business.
Electricity Engineers' Association
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Receiving an award can motivate your engineering employees to continue to do their best in their job, and for their firm. The Electrical...
Employers Toolkit
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Comprehensive toolkit for employing young people – covering everything from initial engagement, site visits and interviews, through to...
Grow
Finding, hiring, keeping young workers
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BusinessNZ provides practical advice and tips on hiring, training and progressing young engineering employees.
Mature workers in the labour market
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With skills' shortages in engineering and an ageing population, find out how to make the most of employing mature workers, by establishing a...
About the NZDE and the NZDEP
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The New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (NZDEP) and New Zealand Diploma in Engineering Practice (NZDEP) explained. Designed for students, but...
Employing BEngTech graduates
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A case study on the range of skills and benefits that Bachelor of Engineering Technology (BEngTech) graduates bring to the table.
NZ Tertiary qualifications explained
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A short guide to the different types of engineering certificates, diplomas and degrees offered by New Zealand polytechs and universities....
Accredited Engineering Qualifications
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An explanation of the three engineering education programmes accredited by Engineering NZ.
Got a Trade? Got it Made!
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Engineering apprentice Paul Taurima gives his perspective on the value of on-the-job training and mentoring.
Engineering NZ - Course and Events
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Support your engineering staff in ongoing learning. Valued employees are more likely to be motivated to work hard and achieve better results...
Supporting staff onto an engineering pathway
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Learn about one engineering employee’s experience of studying and upskilling while working.
Training, development and coaching
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Learn how a mix of training, development and coaching can boost employee performance.
Improving your employees’ literacy, numeracy and communication skills
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A guide to achieving better business performance by improving employees' numeracy, literacy, communications skills. Includes information on a...
Government help with training
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Find out what government support is available for upskilling your engineering workforce and developing your business.
Technical Groups
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Connect with like-minded engineers by joining a technical group relevant to your areas of interest.
Engineering Events
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A guide to engineering events in New Zealand and around the world, provided by NZ Engineering News magazine.
Heavy Engineering Research Association
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The Heavy Engineering Research Association provides opportunities for collaboration, education and support for those in the metals industry....
National Association for Women in Construction
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The National Association for Women in Construction is a non-profit association of women who work either in the construction industry or for...
Women in Engineering Network
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The Women in Engineering Network builds connections between women in engineering.
Electricity Engineers' Association
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Receiving an award can motivate your engineering employees to continue to do their best in their job, and for their firm. The Electrical...
Employee share schemes
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Gain insights in to the experiences of three New Zealand firms who run share schemes.
Employee share schemes
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An accountant’s perspective on employee share schemes and profit sharing.
Venture Taranaki Employer Toolkit
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A regional approach to attracting and retaining staff, including how to “sell” your particular job and region.
Employee share schemes
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Gain insights in to the experiences of three New Zealand firms who run share schemes.
Employee share schemes
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An accountant’s perspective on employee share schemes and profit sharing.
Mind The Gap: How To Build A Winning Team With Succession Planning
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Losing one person in a team of five, means losing 20 percent of your workforce. Learn how succession planning can protect your business. ...
Succession planning: could a cooperative be the answer?
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Could forming a co-operative be your engineering firm’s answer to succession?
4 Reasons for private companies to consider employee ownership as a part of their succession planning
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Four reasons for private companies to consider employee ownership as part of their succession planning